| 单词 | scrape by |
| 例句 | I crouched my way through a couple of backyards, getting scratched and scraped by fences and bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z That came in Spanish, where he had scraped by with a 70. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Other than the menial wages sent home from the cities, families scraped by with little beyond subsistence-level farming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We’re only still scraping by with what Mrs. Fowles gave us off their boat, plus some eggs, because thank goodness Mama Mwanza brought us over two laying hens after the ants ate up ours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever money Mom had inherited from Grandma Smith had disappeared, and once again we started scraping by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the coyote-team is here in a van, bashed around and scraped by many escapes, I believe. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Every inch of his body seemed scraped by something. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I had started the term penniless, and been scraping by ever since. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But once she understood there was no turning back, our mother went to laying out in the spare bedroom all the worldly things she thought we’d need in the Congo just to scrape by. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the worn portion that had been scraped by the cutlass. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t make me as brave as old Daniel, but it always gave me at least a little hope the Lord would let me scrape by. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dragging her fatherless child from place to place, scraping by on menial jobs, justifying it by insisting to herself—by insisting to everyone—she was making Art. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead, I am working from home, trying to keep her entertained at best, neglecting her to screens at worst, while barely scraping by on my partner’s salary. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z So I stuck with science, mustering up just enough motivation to scrape by with a bachelor’s degree, a mediocre GPA and minimal participation in campus activities. Where is my true path in life? 2012-11-09T01:00:00Z However, she barely scraped by in high school and I’d like to communicate to her that I am happy to pay for college as long as she is passing her classes. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does personal accountability still exist? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Returning to Hollywood, Fitzgerald barely scraped by as studios balked at hiring him because of his drinking. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It tells the story of the fatherless and heavy-drinking Flannigan brothers who drift from motel to motel in Nevada after their mother's death when they are young, scraping by with odd jobs. 'The Motel Life' explores brotherly love in a seedy, sad setting 2013-11-08T14:08:29Z He gets out of this scrape by playing the fool, aware how close he’d come to death — a death no one would have investigated. Chuck Berry’s Memoir Grabs You Like a Song 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “We scraped by this time,” Cox told the staff at the morning meeting. Drain the swamp? Not if this guy can help it. 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Strings and wood were scraped by bows, tapped and plucked by fingers. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Some of the best movies in history have dealt with characters who were just barely scraping by — “Bicycle Thieves” and “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Midnight Cowboy” and “Modern Times.” Hollywood doesn’t make many movies about poverty. ‘The Florida Project’ bucks the trend. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z WXLT-TV was a makeshift operation, struggling financially, scraping by with old equipment and an inexperienced, underpaid staff expected to work around the clock. A Shocking Suicide, a Long-Lost Friend, and a Movie Trailer 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z She spent the next several years bouncing between jobs, scraping by first as a streetcar conductor and cook who read the Russians — Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov — in her free time. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 Mr. Maloof was born in a tough neighborhood on the West Side and describes a childhood “scraping by” with his widowed mother. Probing the Mysteries of a Photographer and Her Images 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z "We were barely scraping by on my job." Sticker situation to reclassify cars at higher fee 2011-10-14T02:31:00Z We’re tired and scraping by and spending more time than ever with a smaller circle of people and oh please don’t bring up the news, thank you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to manage visits to a lonely, bored, critical mom? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Hoping to be a writer, he scrapes by as a temp; hoping for love, he strikes out embarrassingly with every at-bat. Review: Going From Schlub to Slick in ‘The Other Josh Cohen’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In return for the privilege of scraping by in a field they love, they are commonly expected to endanger themselves physically and emotionally. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Troy, a married middle-aged sanitation worker scraping by in 1950s Pittsburgh, is one of the most memorable characters in Wilson’s 10-play cycle chronicling 20th century African American life. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z This contributed to the feeling that some of the city’s more fragile museums and non-blue-chip art galleries were barely scraping by. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z For the next four years, she wrote seven days a week, producing a book every two months while taking restaurant and temporary office jobs to scrape by. Katherine Heiny’s Road to ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z On “Harlan County Coal,” Presley sings about lazy husbands, shotgun shells as ornaments and scraping by to afford both presents and the light bill. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z "We were just sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the bills and living in California and barely scraping by," Akpan told Fox. Mom moves family into an RV to help pay debt, travel full-time: ‘Life is too short’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z On the sliver that remains, Alice, a flinty woman in her 70s, scrapes by selling dusty novelty fireworks from a roadside table draped in ratty flag bunting. Review: In ‘Lewiston/Clarkston,’ America at a Crossroads (Plus Dinner) 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But he’s alive, and he’s scraping by — and feeling optimistic, suddenly, about establishing a new life outside the ring. Every pro wrestler respects a good shtick. That’s why this one voted for Trump. 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z At the time, leaders said the company had been scraping by financially and was having trouble making ends meet. Elephant Theatre Co. in Hollywood bids farewell, for now at least 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z While Lizzie is one of the rich "beautiful people", Adam's family scrape by on the pay for his mother's night shifts. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z And money is scarce, with many Parisians barely scraping by in the winter chill. ‘Le Club Noel’ musical, visiting 1933 Paris at Christmas, falls short 2013-12-10T03:34:58Z But behind them are real-life tragicomic sagas of decent folks struggling and striving, some prospering while others scrape by. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z There are frost heaves, piles of salt, bulldozers scraping by and there you are, battering away at it with a shovel. Cambridge, Mass., launches sidewalk poetry program after record snows 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “Noise/Silence,” enacted in gurgles, pings and scrapes by Mr. Frasconi, made its point through simple contrasts, thoughtfully deployed. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z But the dissemination of her work never created an income stream for her, and she scraped by through teaching as an adjunct instructor at colleges in the Bay Area. Yolanda López, Artist Who Celebrated Working-Class Women, Dies at 78 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z To scrape by, he worked as the Central European correspondent for The Forward, and ghostwrote two memoirs by Holocaust survivors. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Hank scrapes by working security for the Thai Miracle Spa. When a Cold Case Turns Deadly 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z In Virginia, raising Ryan and his older brother mostly as a single mother, she scraped by, selling insurance and managing an apartment complex. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z In the early 1950s, Mr. Berger moved from New York City to Rockland County, where he scraped by as a freelance copy editor and worked on his first novel, “Crazy in Berlin.” Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z By the time she is growing up in the 1980s, however, the pits are tapped out, the industry eviscerated by Thatcher and the inhabitants scraping by on government benefits and booze. Review: ‘How to Build a Girl,’ by Caitlin Moran The young couple was scraping by, living in a one-bedroom flat near the National Zoo. Martine Rothblatt: She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech. For starters. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Rudderless, he scrapes by as a perpetually overdue pizza delivery guy in Paris. ‘I Lost My Body’ Review: The Quest of a Severed Hand 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Joel has barely scraped by for 20 years when he meets Ellie, but she gives him reason to hope again, even as their road winds through unspeakable violence. New to ‘The Last of Us’? Here’s What to Know Before It Debuts 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z It was a minor scrape by “Jersey Shore” standards, but the local news anchor described the incident with the kind of breathless alarm that would have been better suited for, well, a hurricane. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z While others scraped by in a difficult era, her parents had plum jobs and the family had a large apartment, a grand piano, maids, paintings, all the records and theater tickets and other privileges imaginable. Review: Marina Abramovic’s ‘Walk Through Walls,’ a Memoir of Masochism and Pretension 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The knowledge that if we allow ourselves to think hard enough about our lives we will realize that they are spent in service of making someone else rich while we merely scrape by? Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The show continued the theme of this half-season, where our characters are exhausted from scraping by in a day-to-day existence and are once again searching for something more meaningful in life. The Walking Dead Watch: Still 2014-03-03T15:30:58Z Those in the Crews family, like everyone they knew, barely scraped by. Harry Crews’s ‘A Childhood’ Vividly Evokes a Depression-Era America 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z This is now officially one fewer guaranteed platform — which, yes, should be open to many genres — for noncommercial work, which scrapes by on grants, fellowships, commissions and, yes, awards. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z A staple of TV serials during the 50s now facing obsolescence as tastes morph, he is scraping by on guest spots casting him as a novelty, a reference to himself. The end of an era: age, time and change in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Working stiffs scraping by were once admired, even mythologized as the salt of the earth. ‘Good People’ portrays the haves and have-nots 2013-03-16T16:53:55Z In her unstinting memoir — a portrait of working-class poverty in America — Land scrapes by on $9 an hour cleaning houses to support herself and her young daughter. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “That decision was more difficult for him than the decision not to stay in our house. . . . We were scraping by.” In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth In 10 episodes shown last year, it offered an absurdist, slapstick look at two women scraping by in New York. ‘Broad City’ Stars Look Toward Season 2 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The family was "dirt poor," scraping by on meager bread and milk rations available in what was then an underdeveloped country. AP Interview: Simmons blasts Israel boycotters 2011-03-22T22:46:04Z Less fortunate are the millions who live in poverty in the red zone, forced to scrape by on their wits. A month ago, ‘Incorporated’ would have felt different. Same with Dolly Parton’s Christmas movie. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “Yellowstone” is about powerful landowners and “Hell or High Water” is about two guys barely scraping by, yet both are about people terrified of losing some part of their legacy. With ‘1883,’ Taylor Sheridan Expands His Western Empire 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He would never obtain any formal architecture degree, although he would gain experience in the construction battalion of the US Navy during WWII, where he learned to scrape by on unconventional and discarded materials. Midwestern futurism 2012-08-26T23:00:00Z For some, there has been no recovery and they are left barely scraping by. The Gulf Coast may never recover 2013-04-23T20:02:00Z Many places were scraping by on ritual and habit, hoping that casino licenses — a possibility that remains under debate — would offer salvation. ‘Echoes of the Borscht Belt,’ Photos at Yeshiva University 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z They scraped by until Gerald came up with a scheme to supplement his sister’s meager income by cashing the disability checks of their missing mother. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The group spans Oakland’s socioeconomic divide, with some members barely scraping by, and others living in spacious aeries with killer views. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Little of that flows from Hattie, in the cramped, inner-city Philadelphia household where she, her good-natured but irresponsible husband, August, and their many children just barely scrape by — emotionally and financially. ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’: the scars of a mother’s battles 2013-01-31T23:00:50Z The Cheevers met on an elevator in Manhattan when Mrs. Cheever was just out of Sarah Lawrence College and Mr. Cheever was scraping by as a writer. Mary Cheever, a Central Figure in a Literary Family, Dies at 95 2014-04-10T00:16:09Z After years of "barely scraping by," and living in debt, Karen Akpan and her husband Sylvester decided it was time to move their family into an RV to travel full-time. Mom moves family into an RV to help pay debt, travel full-time: ‘Life is too short’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z They scraped by as refugees in London, and his father was interned on the Isle of Man for a period. Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z If a young person comes in, or someone just barely scraping by, sometimes he won’t charge them at all. He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z However, Trump scraped by with second place and Clinton barely held on to beat Bernie Sanders by the tiniest of margins. Astrologers predict New Hampshire results: whoever wins will be president 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Even with Vimeo’s money, the two are still forced to scrape by. Budding Success 'High Maintenance' Is About More Than Drugs 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z At the time, overstaying a visa seemed more like a detail than a serious offense, and O’Dowd — who scraped by painting houses and working construction — barely gave it a second thought. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z For years, she scraped by on child support and analog art sales. Crypto artists have been building a rebellious, underground community of outsiders for years. Now they’re making a living selling NFTs. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z How can it be that there is no public outcry despite the regular headlines showing just how many children live in families that can barely scrape by? Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Vinnie Jones barely scrapes by these days as its dimmest bulb. Celebrity Parents SOS| Cable girl 2010-05-25T07:00:00Z Here, on what used to be the Strip, a militarized government uses the Bellagio as both capital and palace, while everyone else scrapes by in a caste system. SyFy’s ‘Dominion’: Survivng the post-apocalypse with some low-rent angels At the time, the band was barely scraping by; that album would launch it into superstardom. Sundance brings together Nirvana alums 2013-01-25T01:57:08Z But “The Layover,” which probably scrapes by thanks to a line here or there, plays as if it were designed to thumb its nose at the concept. Review: Fighting Dirty, Over a Man, in ‘The Layover’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Though he was just scraping by, he had finally found a community in which the feeling of being an outsider, which he’d felt since arriving on U.S. soil in the eighth grade, was an asset. 'Patriots Day' Star Jimmy O. Yang on Playing an American Hero 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “Every artist is scraping by, trying to get some attention for their work,” he said. Young Gallerists Are Transforming New York?s Art Scene 2011-09-30T21:57:32Z Lavender-Bey lives in a small apartment in Columbia Heights and scrapes by playing a handful of gigs a month and with the assistance of food stamps. For D.C.’s older jazz artists, scarcity of gigs is a hard reality And then there is the slice of graduates effectively underemployed, using a college degree for positions that don’t require one or barely scraping by, working in call centers, bars or art-supply stores. Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin 2011-09-01T00:01:27Z The departure puts his family in Trent's sights; his mother's boarding house and the bar his father and brothers run barely scrape by. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Those numbers are far above the minimum wage that many mothers scrape by on, but still the math never made sense. Perspective | The unreasonable expectations of American motherhood 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z But her own “recovery” had not 12 steps but one: get an education, even if you have to scrape by to do so. Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z This novel is a densely populated village where everyone leans on one another in order to scrape by. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z She scoffed at tabloid reports that she is scraping by on $25,000 a month in support payments. Their Warhols Are at the Whitney. Their Ugly Divorce Is on Display, Too. 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z You’ve got a fortune in one sense and are just scraping by in another. 'The Affair' Recap: Alison Hits Brooklyn, 'Girls' Style 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z The Forgotten Girls, meanwhile, try to recover their lives in Maiduguri, a city targeted repeatedly by Boko Haram, scraping by on support from aid groups. Stolen daughters: what happened after #BringBackOurGirls? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z A few years later, the war is over, Elena is pregnant and she and Silvio are scraping by in Rome, where he writes for a left-wing newspaper. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z William Dupuis, who taught chemistry at Sage Hill and had both young men in class, said that Grant scraped by with B’s in first-year chemistry. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z After dominating opponents week after week earlier in the season, the Huskies scraped by the past two weeks with close wins over Oregon and Arizona State. Analysis: Instant impressions from UW’s 42-33 win over Stanford 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z On the other wait more than 2 million Gazans now scraping by on dwindling stocks of basic human necessities. Deal Lays Groundwork for Aid to Reach Desperate Gazans, Officials Say 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Many Argentines have taken on informal jobs to complement their low income as they scrape by day-to-day. Buenos Aires central square becomes nighttime soup kitchen as poverty rises 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The family was able to set up a small barbershop business on the fringes of the Colombia’s capital, but rising xenophobia and low pay left the family of eight struggling to scrape by. Migrants hoping to reach US continue north through Mexico by train amid historic migration levels 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Some parents scrape by on a lot less, though. Seattle median household income hits $115,000, census data shows 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z They have always been the working poor, scraping by in jobs that are the envy of no one. Column: 130 years ago, a Los Angeles tamale vendor was robbed. How times haven't changed 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z You can’t just scrape by on almost nothing and hope it works out at the end of the month. Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Bolin, the mayor, said that even before the fire, Paradise’s government was “barely scraping by.” Five years after the Camp fire, Paradise survivors see a hard future for Maui 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z “I understand what it means to just scrape by. I understand how working people are,” Presley said. Mississippi Gov. Reeves faces 2 GOP rivals in Tuesday’s primary, while Democrat Presley is unopposed 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Across the country, workers are unionizing and striking, fed up with income inequality and lives of scraping by — as they should be. Column: California politicians ask Taylor Swift to cancel concerts. She won't shake it off 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Researchers would have to scrape by on grants from private entities and limited state funding. The GOP and the NRA want to stop gun violence research. California is a target 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z For England, the ruling, helped by a video assistant referee, played a major factor in scraping by 1-0 over Haiti. Penalty pain: Players converted just 4 of the first 8 penalty kicks at the Women’s World Cup 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z In April, Reddit announced that it would not make its corpus available for scraping by big tech companies without compensation. Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Many family child-care providers currently earn less than minimum wage and are barely scraping by, Arias said. A payment overhaul is coming to California child care, along with a 20% raise for workers 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In India, where outright unemployment hardly exists, many similarly scrape by. Want One of India’s Best Jobs? You and 1,800 Other Applicants. 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z They have a mortgage and barely scraped by when she was out of work, while worrying that he, too, could lose his job. No Job, No Marriage, No Kid: China’s Workers and the Curse of 35 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z In areas like western Guatemala, where coconut, corn and banana plantations stretch along the highway, many people scrape by at a barely subsistence level. Weary Guatemalans pick a new president Sunday. Will it be 'the least of the worst' again? 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Those rules produced top-heavy payrolls that see some players get paid well while others scrape by. 'Enough is enough.' Too much soccer aggravating MLS players and coaches 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z And in much of the country, many regular people are just scraping by. Your Tuesday Briefing: Xi and Blinken Meet 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet, in much of the country, Argentines are scraping by and hunger is on the rise. In Argentina, Inflation Passes 100% (and the Restaurants Are Packed) 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z In the meantime, many owners of small home child-care centers say they are barely scraping by. Child-care providers by day, Amazon drivers by night. Workers fight for living wages. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Around us the black hillside is being steadily eaten away, scraped by enormous diggers to make concrete and asphalt for roads. Can ‘enhanced rock weathering’ help combat climate change? 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z A significant percentage of the population of cities were “paupers,” the indigent and homeless who tried to scrape by as laborers or sought charity from the Church. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors said the family had barely scraped by, collecting garbage in the Old City. Killing of alleged collaborator exposes Palestinian tensions 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Many are still scraping by, like Samuel Arthur, who makes $100 a month selling large, heavy-duty plastic bags in Georgetown and other areas, hauling some 40 pounds of weight every day. Oil boom transforms Guyana, prompting a scramble for spoils 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Rents will double at the new location; Sherman-Nurick acknowledges that it will be a struggle to figure out balance sheets, as the store was already barely scraping by. How a Riverside bookstore, a cultural oasis, got a new lease — drag readings and all 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Trumpism on the ballot nationally has succeeded exactly once — when Trump scraped by Hillary Clinton, a severely flawed candidate, with a victory in the electoral college. Opinion | Ron DeSantis needs to ask himself this question 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She made a point not to judge customers who didn’t tip, she said, because she knew they might be barely scraping by. 'Do y'all think tipping culture has gotten out of control?' Inside our evolving tipping dilemma 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Now Ciftsuren and his wife, also 74, scrape by on his government pension while thanking God for having made them homeowners long ago. Their home was razed due to earthquake risk. But that left them nowhere to go 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z He scraped by until the end of the school year, but he needed to earn more money. As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The feast-or-famine lifestyle — ranging from getting a portion of international performance fees, to scraping by at home if they weren’t performing or booking enough parties— was wearing him down. Roc’co Tha Clown is building a family of hip hop clowns, one party at a time 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Keep his weekend gig, spend the rest of the week in Barcelona "scrape by, work a bar job", and travel back to his studio for the show. 1Xtra: Reece Parkinson leaves BBC radio station after six years 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z To scrape by, Pacheco and her daughter secretly sold fruits and vegetables in a market in another neighborhood, avoiding gang payments simply referred to as “rent.” War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z After years of extreme economic hardship, some Venezuelans lead lives of luxury as others scrape by. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z And despite the Maduro administration’s new slogan — “Venezuela is fixed” — many scrape by on the equivalent of only a few dollars a day, while public-sector employees have taken to the streets to protest low salaries. Ferraris and Hungry Children: Venezuela’s Socialist Vision in Shambles 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z After scraping by with freelance web design jobs, he eventually landed a curatorial position at Electronic Arts Intermix, a nonprofit archive of video and media art. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z For months, he said, he scraped by, sharing meager rations and a scrap of plastic for shelter with his best friend, Haftom, a former shoeshine boy who had big dreams of success. Blinken to visit Ethiopia as progress under Tigray peace deal slows 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z As the Tsikurishvilis arrived in the D.C. area, initially scraping by performing in restaurants or on street corners, their son picked up more tricks of the trade. At Synetic Theater, a son follows in his father’s footsteps 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z None paid more than enough to scrape by. Despite Help for Venezuelans in South America, Many Are Still Heading North 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z By March 2021, he was scraping by on a tax preparation and financial advice business when gunshots rang out one day as he was leaving work. $500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z While underwhelming, Europe’s growth figure at least raises the chance it will scrape by without a technical recession even if economic expansion is negative in the first three months of this year. Europe scrapes out economic growth by dodging gas disaster 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Play that out a few years and it’s not hard to envision more people scraping by in low-wage jobs, and income disparities widening still further between Washington’s haves and have-nots. WA has the tools to guide more high school graduates into career paths 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z "I was scraping by before. I was head chef at one point and I worked for quite a few employers and I got fed up with working for very little," he said. Bristol's van dwellers suffer as cost of living bites 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z His parents sold chickens and eggs during the Great Depression, barely scraping by, but when Philip developed an interest in art, they let him attend Saturday classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Philip Pearlstein, painter who mastered the nude, dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z With the economy in free-fall, millions of Iranians are scraping by in fear of losing whatever jobs they can get. Why mass strikes could be a missing key to Iran’s uprising 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z But on Sunday afternoon, after a three-hour roller coaster of a World Cup final, one that saw Argentina scrape by a win on penalty kicks, they were tears of joy. ‘Argentina endures’: In Buenos Aires, emotional celebrations of a World Cup victory 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z This year the Army missed its recruiting goal by about 25%, while the other services scraped by. Congress set to rescind COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z County’s current rate of $16 an hour has made it difficult to scrape by amid rising costs for rent, gas and groceries. L.A. County to set aside money to boost wages for caregivers for elderly and disabled 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z I make $16 an hour, and I still live with my parents because I would barely be able to scrape by if I didn't. Amid right-to-work laws and anti-labor practices, a new union rises in the South 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z "He didn't want us to just scrape by any more, he wanted us to play, how we do now. He gave us confidence in our football and shaped our game as it is today." World Cup: Wales fans remember Gary Speed 11 years after death 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z A lot of his problems with other people came from the fact that he was a charismatic Black man doing well in a world where a lot of White men were just scraping by. Review | Chuck Berry’s complicated path to becoming a rock legend 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband’s income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. Low-wage workers bear financial brunt of denied abortions 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z If a wealthy member state can throw billions of euros at an industry while a poorer one has to scrape by and look on jealously, the concept of the EU’s common market is under threat. EU faces battle to keep energy prices from tanking economy 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Everyone gets the same percentage increase, whether they have millions of dollars in retirement savings or are just scraping by. EXPLAINER: A huge jump in Social Security payments is coming 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Along with the oil, the checks began flowing, as if by magic, to the Rectors, who, illiterate and barely scraping by, knew little about managing money. ‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Two months out of work, she is just now getting unemployment benefits and barely scraping by. Employers added 528,000 jobs in July, shattering expectations 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z If she had accidentally become pregnant while her husband was finishing up his graduate degree and the two were scraping by on her meager salary, she said, she would likely have sought an abortion. Poland's near-total abortion ban offers a grim glimpse of a possible U.S. future 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z It would be a while before he described his years scraping by in New York. He had a dark secret. It changed his best friend’s life 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The piecemeal work she has picked up since then is barely enough to scrape by, but also keeps her from qualifying for a new apartment, she added. Inflation is making homelessness worse 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The reliance on volunteers for that centennial maintenance project hearkened to CCC days in more ways than just manual labor — a place that acts like a national park nevertheless scrapes by on state resources. As Deception Pass turns 100, WA’s favorite state park cultivates next generation of ‘dreams and memories’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Those who were barely scraping by have lost everything. Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It was January, and she was scraping by on $443 a month in food stamps. How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z His father, a factory laborer, had difficulty finding work during the Great Depression, and the family scraped by in what Mr. Hall later called “the slums of the north end” of the city. Philip Baker Hall, master of gruff and gruffly silly character roles, dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Cross, who wasn’t working because of her ailing back and knees, was scraping by on roughly $200 a month in aid plus whatever she could make from recycling bottles and cans. A computer model predicts who will become homeless. Then these workers step in 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z As people struggle to keep up with the rising costs of heating, eating and putting fuel in their cars, small businesses are facing up to a new reality - scraping by or shutting up shop. Cost-of-living crisis 'killing' small businesses in Northern Ireland 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Johnson scraped by after he touted his prowess as a bona fide election winner: “I will lead you to victory again,” he told colleagues as he made his case. Your Tuesday Briefing: Boris Johnson Stays in Power 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z After college, I lived in the East Village, scraping by. ‘Feeling Smug, I Sat Down and Began to Look Around’ 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Years later, the younger Mr. Ciscomani is one of House Republicans’ top recruits in the country, running to flip a key congressional seat just blocks from where they once worked to scrape by. Republicans Elevate Diverse Recruits in Bid to Win House Majority 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Years later, the younger Ciscomani is one of House Republicans’ top recruits in the country, running to flip a key congressional seat just blocks from where they once worked to scrape by. Republicans elevate diverse recruits in bid to win House majority 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z ‘Bicycle Thieves’ A family man barely scraping by in postwar Rome undertakes a desperate search when his only means of transportation is stolen in Vittorio De Sica’s essential 1948 neorealist drama. Classic movies in SoCal: 'Star Trek,' 'Blood and Sand,' the UCLA Festival of Preservation 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z What she wanted was not to have to supplement her government job, which paid the equivalent of $300 to $400 a month, with side hustles; she wanted to get ahead, instead of scraping by. ‘It’s a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong to Herself’ 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The economy there was dismal before the pandemic hit, but Mr. Hernández scraped by, selling bread and chips. Cuban Migrants Arrive to U.S. in Record Numbers, on Foot, Not by Boat 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Already, he was paying for the UAE’s unprecedented fuel prices out of his own pocket and was barely scraping by, with a wife and 7-month-old son back in Cameroon to support. Dubai delivery drivers walk off job in rare protest over pay 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Many of those refugees fleeing Afghanistan’s repression and destitution harbor humble dreams: of scraping by as construction laborers, factory workers and farmhands in Iran. As Iran-Taliban tensions rise, Afghan migrants in tinderbox 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Besides, astronauts were not paid particularly well, and he was weary of scraping by. The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Established in 1909 as one of the first entries into the California State Park system, today Fort Ross scrapes by with a staff of 11 and a budget of about $500,000. Russia’s Jamestown in America — and the oligarch who has helped fund it 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z That won’t change the fact that the family is still barely scraping by. Amazon’s $2B housing push is mostly leaving out D.C. area’s poorest 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Price, 62, has worked in food service at the Library of Congress for 42 years, and during the pandemic she scraped by, thanks to her morning paper route and other odd jobs. Higher interest rates could help, Powell says. Not everyone agrees. 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z A Sudanese family, an Eritrean refugee and an unemployed Italian named Giovanni Oddone tell similar stories of scraping by on odd jobs. With Macron and Le Pen Leading Election Field, a Fractured France Decides 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr Hand added he was "scraping by" on disability benefits. Cost of living: 'I can't afford to charge my mobility scooter' 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Now that they are receiving PIP and other welfare payments, Stephen says they are "just about scraping by", but with petrol, food and energy prices rising, things are still tough financially. Cost of living: Cancer patient used foodbanks during PIP wait 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z That is especially the case for families scraping by to cover the basics and for whom rent, groceries and gas make up a huge share of daily costs. Fed raises interest rates modestly, plans seven rate hikes in total this year 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z They remembered a handsome and polite man who had quietly scraped by on donations after an apparent mental breakdown. As Police Hunt for Gunman, Fear Rattles Homeless People in 2 Cities 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z "I would just about scrape by if Derby went under but I would take a massive hit. It would put some businesses under." Derby County: The footballing city that could lose its club 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Unlike the superstars cherry-picked for this piece, the majority of songwriters — even those with hits — are scraping by to make a living. Opinion | Songwriters deserve the tax break for their work 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Summers struggled to pay rent for both clubs when the pandemic hit, scraping by with ticketed shows hosted via Zoom and some money from Employment Development Department government loans. Jiaoying Summers' joke about China's one-child policy made everyone laugh — except TikTok censors 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The Rams defeated the Arizona Cardinals and scraped by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the final seconds to get to this point. Rams vs 49ers: NFC Championship preview, times and more 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In the meantime, he scrapes by on freelance writing gigs: resumes, business letters, art catalogs, government paperwork. Can L.A.'s condiment king turn TikTok fame into fortune? 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “We are just scraping by,” said Doron, the epidemiologist at Tufts. Sick staff. Endless COVID patients. Doctors 'just scraping by' as Omicron sweeps hospitals 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z "They are really just scraping by," she says. The nurse helping people with 'no gas, no carpets, no food' 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Even under the current reimbursement system, they say, facilities are scraping by. California rethinks nursing home funding after 'appalling' COVID-19 death toll 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Dorothy’s impatience and crankiness with her husband, as well as a seemingly palpable disdain for him, at first seem rooted in his pie-in-the-sky crusades, flighty job choices and how they barely scrape by financially. Review: Broadbent, Mirren steal the show in Roger Michell's last feature 'The Duke' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z ‘Good People’ Theatre 40 stages David Lindsay-Abaire’s poignant 2011 drama about an unemployed single mother scraping by in a working-class Boston neighborhood. ‘Violins of Hope,’ ‘The Band’s Visit’ and 7 more best bets for your weekend 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The Wolverines have scraped by some bad Big Ten teams this season but have another test in Iowa. Michigan vs Iowa: Big Ten Conference title game preview, kickoff time & more 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Most of those weighing in on the McDonald’s walkout were service workers: certified nursing assistants, waitresses, security guards and store cashiers who were barely scraping by themselves. ‘It’s a walkout!’ The House vote came days after Democrats lost the governor’s office in Virginia and scraped by in New Jersey with disappointing results that convinced the party that voters needed to see progress on Biden’s agenda. Biden secures bipartisan win with infrastructure vote 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Freeman had a home run in Game 5 as well but the Braves couldn’t scrape by. Freddie Freeman reflects on Braves' World Series win: 'I’m lost for words' 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “We’re not scraping by, we will make this work, even though it’s very frustrating,” she said. Seattle parents rush to find ways to get kids to school after district suspends 142 bus routes 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “It’s pretty much just scraping by,” he said of his lifestyle. Rising Rents Are Fueling Inflation, Posing Trouble for the Fed 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z This is not a scheme to get over here and live in a low-income community and scrape by in the middle of nowhere, arm-wrestle the locals for imagined riches or create problems. Opinion | The Afghans just want to live in and with respect 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Luxury apartment buildings were popping up where homeowners and renters scraped by. Nonprofit group seeks to preserve and grow homeownership in West Baltimore 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Rabies can be spread by being bitten or scraped by an infected animal such as a dog, raccoon, skunk or fox. A man woke to a bat on his neck and declined a vaccine. Weeks later, he died of rabies 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Six million followers, and they were still just barely scraping by, worried about paying their electric and Internet bills. An Indigenous TikTok user in the Amazon posted a video of herself eating a beetle larva. Now she has 6 million followers. He was later twice divorced, according to a 2006 account in the Los Angeles Times, and scraped by as a self-employed plumber. George Holliday, who videotaped L.A. police beating Rodney King, dies of covid-19 complications 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z A rise in domestic travelers or assistance from government programs has helped hostels scrape by. Hostels, Havens for the Thrifty, Fight to Survive the Pandemic 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z So a few rich people hoard all the cash while everyone else is forced to scrape by on increasingly mean resources. Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Six million followers, and they were still just barely scraping by, worried about paying their electric and internet bills. An Indigenous TikTok user in the Amazon posted a video of herself eating beetle larva. Now she has 6 million followers. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z While consistent Bundesliga playing time was valuable for Sargent, Bremen plunged from a midtable team to a club merely trying to scrape by and avoid relegation. Josh Sargent, fresh off his Premier League transfer, targets consistency as USMNT qualifying begins 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The shop managed to stay in business, scraping by for a while on online sales from loyal customers, Van Curen said. 'Larry! Larry!': A look inside three Elder voting blocs — longtime fans, new converts, evangelicals 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z His mother and brother also escaped their five-room home as it crumbled, leaving them scraped by falling debris. At least 304 dead in Haiti in wake of 7.2-magnitude earthquake 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z The 41-year-old mother of five was barely scraping by, working irregular hours in a T-shirt printing shop and cleaning houses to help pay the family’s $2,600 monthly rent. Residents displaced by LAPD fireworks explosion feel angry, alone, ignored. 'We lost a lot' 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z They had just scraped by in a challenging group stage rather than blasting through it like usual. U.S. women’s soccer team loses to Canada in semifinals, ending bid for Olympic gold 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Hart, who leads the trio Chapel Hart, said the group was accustomed to scraping by since they got their start busking in New Orleans. 'Like a rebirth': Americans pack reopened concert halls for a summer of music 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z It is not means-tested or affected by any other benefits you might qualify for, but Billie says they were still "scraping by" and sometimes struggled to buy food. Benefits and disability: 'I'll never cohabit again, to protect myself' 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Weiland said the Medicaid expansion proposal would help up to 42,500 people who often scrape by, struggling to pay for health care. Medicaid expansion group loses ballot timeline challenge 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z People scrape by on subsistence farming, jobs in small factories, welfare checks and cash flow from retirees who are moving onto the cheap, vista-blissful land. Faith, freedom, fear all factor into rural America’s COVID vaccine skepticism 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z That was the tough question to Catlin, who was barely scraping by in Canada. Column: Catlin’s hot streak around the world gets him to PGA 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z South Korean society at the time still held deep prejudices against women who were divorced, forcing her to scrape by. Long Before Her ‘Minari’ Oscar, Yuh-Jung Youn Won South Korea’s Heart 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z She went on to attend Fresno State and then the Medical College of Pennsylvania, sleeping on friends’ couches, borrowing money from other Cambodian refugees and scraping by. This doctor escaped Cambodia’s killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z They both worked as kids while their mother, who lived in a house made from adobe, sold tamales to scrape by. Immigrants with temporary status have grown deep roots in US 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z She is scraping by doing four part-time jobs and staying with relatives on Staten Island. ‘I Really Loved My Job’: Why the Pandemic Has Hit These Workers Harder 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z After all, only a fool would think anyone in New York City or Los Angeles could scrape by on $15,000 a year. Editorial Roundup: US 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z None more so than Mr Fadugbagbe, who spent years struggling to scrape by as what he describes as a "minimum-wage slave". Cryptocurrencies: Why Nigeria is a global leader in Bitcoin trade 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Do you know why you’re drawn to stories about people who are just scraping by? Director Kelly Reichardt writes while she scouts — as with 'First Cow' 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “Sometimes figuring out how to scrape by the first week is really important when you’re not playing well. I think the best players find ways to win on their worst days.” Making Week 2 of a Grand Slam Is a Leap. And Not Just for an Extra $80,000 in Australia. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z In the dusty fields of the San Joaquin Valley, “El Profe” brings masks, music and help to farm laborers, some of whom are barely scraping by. One house, two doctors, three generations and the long-awaited relief of a vaccine 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “Working yourself into an early grave just to scrape by? That’s not the Oklahoma I want to create, that’s not what I want my nieces or my nephews to grow up in,” Turner explains. Democrat Mauree Turner on historic win and 'the Oklahoma I want to create' 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Cicely Tyson was born in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood on Dec. 18, 1924, to West Indian immigrants who scraped by in menial jobs. Cicely Tyson, actress who gave electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women, dies at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Grand Staircase, facing unrelenting opposition from local politicians and the gutting of public lands budgets on the federal level, now scrapes by with roughly a quarter of its original staff and funding. Biden expected to reverse Trump’s order to shrink Utah national monuments 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Nadal, the world No. 2 who is bidding for a record 21st Grand Slam singles title, has found a way to scrape by during the first week with a balky back. Making Week 2 of a Grand Slam Is a Leap. And Not Just for an Extra $80,000 in Australia. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z “It means that I’m not scraping by from week to week.” As eviction ban stretches on, so does uncertainty and rent debt 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Smith spent the 1990s scraping by in the Pacific Northwest’s riot-grrrl scene, sharing bills with Bikini Kill as part of a nervy duo called Mecca Normal. The Painter Subverting Art-World Economics, $100 at a Time 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z When the pandemic hit, even households that used to scrape by began skipping meals, seven families interviewed by Reuters said. Storms, coronavirus and drought spread hunger to millions in Central America 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The five other barbers who work in his shops are self-employed, and trying to scrape by as well. On London street, virus forces small shops to adapt or close 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z “For everyone, there was damage,” said Flores, who was able to scrape by on his small savings. Immigrant street musicians turn adversity into art to earn their daily bread 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” envisioned a Los Angeles ravaged by climate change and economic injustice, where people are just scraping by to survive. Watch: L.A. Book Times Club explores the many worlds of Octavia E. Butler 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z She scrapes by on Social Security, goes to AA meetings, rides the bus to Walmart, hangs out with other residents at “Celebrate Recovery.” Woman shares story about killing sister, life after prison 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead of leaning on the state, hospitals have scraped by ordering masks from their existing suppliers. Washington state stockpiles N95 masks as hospitals see demand rise in new coronavirus wave 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Last week, Auburn barely scraped by Arkansas with a narrow two-point victory. Auburn's Bo Nix, Seth Williams butt heads as team struggles vs. South Carolina 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Delta’s path deviated enough from Laura’s to mount a direct assault on parts of the central Louisiana coast that had only been scraped by the earlier storm. Hurricane Delta Brings Floods and Destruction to an Already Battered Louisiana 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Stories emerged of workers juggling impossible schedules, barely scraping by. Uber and gig companies spend nearly $200 million to knock down an employment law they don’t like - and it might work 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Butler envisioned a world ravaged by climate change and economic injustice where people are just scraping by to survive. 5 paths to continue your Octavia E. Butler discovery after ‘Parable of the Sower’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The hotel used to be often fully booked, but now they are barely scraping by, he said. Disneyland's war with California over reopening sets up a critical pandemic choice 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z A Justice who would likely scrape by with just the slimmest of margins. Amy Coney Barrett confirmation fight: Senate GOP has math on their side 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Ghattas reluctantly increased his prices, but what money he made was only enough for him to scrape by. A baker’s tale: A Beirut landmark struggles to survive unending crises 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Her father left when she was two, forcing the family to scrape by on her mother's meagre salary as a paralegal. Alicia Keys: 'I felt I was from another planet' 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z As it is, they are scraping by, using savings for house payments. Medicaid rolls swell amid the pandemic’s historic job losses, straining state budgets 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Compared to the Pentagon, the federal agencies charged with safeguarding the environment are barely scraping by. It's Time to Rein in Inflated Military Budgets 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Maria Valdez, a laid-off housekeeper at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, is scraping by with three children on a $314 weekly unemployment check. The Service Economy Meltdown 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Alarmed by the poverty, disease and often filthy living conditions, he began trying to help them, finding work for them on farms so they could earn enough to scrape by and getting them medical attention. ‘It’s a Joy for Me to Bury Them’: A Quest to Honor Migrant Dead 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The stock market is flying high, but many unemployed Americans are scraping by without enhanced unemployment payments. Fed changes its approach to inflation, as leaders aim to navigate future crises and reach full employment 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The pandemic hit at a moment of economic crisis that left many scraping by on a monthly minimum wage equal to roughly $2.60. Venezuela’s pandemic lockdown sparks entrepreneurial spirit 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Across the US stories of scraping by are mounting. Millions of Americans scrape by after benefits expire: 'I lost everything' 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Her mother scraped by through manual labor, vowing her girl would never do the same. Extreme poverty rises; a generation sees a future slip away 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z The school needs them because, like many other small institutions, Sterling College scrapes by from year to year. COVID-19 threatens small colleges and towns they keep alive 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z She is surviving thanks to emergency aid from the university and from the government - vital aid that is helping her mother scrape by, too. The Brazilians being dealt a double blow by virus 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Now he scrapes by growing onions, he said. EU effort to stem African migration leaves some ex-smugglers empty handed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The storm this weekend scraped by Florida and on Monday, its centre remained offshore of South Carolina. Isaias forecast to hit Carolinas as a hurricane 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Many are desperate and only scraping by as is. Republicans veer toward electoral self-sabotage for the 2020 election 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Some farm laborers return to their home countries, while others try to scrape by in temporary living situations. This county knew coronavirus could ravage its farmworkers. Why didn't officials stop it? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z That will put more pressure on renters already scraping by, housing advocates say. A federal eviction moratorium ends this week, putting 12 million tenants at risk 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z And so, with a peak season’s worth of sales already largely lost, Xingcheng’s factories are scraping by an order at a time, waiting for world governments to get a grip on the illness. China’s Swimwear Capital Can’t Wait for You to Go Back to the Beach 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z He may pull off a stunning upset and scrape by with an electoral college victory once again, but right now, it's a longshot. Jeff Sessions goes down in flames: Former GOP senator losses comeback bid after Trump betrayal 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “He was scraping by,” Wyoming Game and Fish Department large carnivore biologist Becca Lyon said while en route to the release site. Black bear rescued as cub released back into Wyoming woods 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Now she is trapped, grieving for a faraway spouse and relying on public assistance just to scrape by. ‘We sit in disbelief’: the anguish of families torn apart under Trump’s deportation policy 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Like Santos, Maria and her husband have scraped by since they arrived in the Bay Area from Coeneo, a small town in Mexico, in 1998. One Bar. Twelve Weeks. Seventeen Lives in Lockdown. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z It also raises the question of whether China will forget again the hundreds of millions of low-wage workers who are still trying to scrape by despite their country’s wealth. China’s Street Vendor Push Ignites a Debate: How Rich Is It? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s chilling and irrational, especially in a city where so many shop owners, the heart and soul of L.A., are barely scraping by themselves. Column: Angelenos are taking to the streets. Again. Will it produce real change this time? 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z After a few hard years scraping by in downtown L.A., he worked in sales for a doll company, then started his own small business, an import-export operation moving construction materials between California and Indonesia. He was part of Amazon's coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Still, no amount of temporary relief or permanent loan restructuring will save all properties, particularly those just scraping by before the pandemic. Distressed Real Estate Market Beckons Opportunistic Buyers 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Rachel had been running groceries for Instacart since October, but the Las Vegas market had barely offered enough gigs to scrape by. The human cost of Instacart’s grocery delivery 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Politics is about the distribution of resources, and those resources, whether it’s money or food or bombs, decides who in our society lives and who dies, who has abundance and who barely scrapes by. From Mrs America to Rodham, America's in love with feminist paper dolls | Jessa Crispin 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The opportunity to reopen would have given her some much-needed relief after months of barely scraping by. Md. releases ‘staggering’ forecast of economic damage; 103,633 filed jobless claims last week; Pr. George’s extends order 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Many of these characters are scraping by, and most are immigrants or closely descended from immigrants. The world of 'The Eddy' will haunt you. The story, not so much 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z More likely, they are scraping by on less than they made before table service shut down. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The poor, used to scraping by on jobs in the informal economy, are increasingly dependent on handouts. For Southern Italy, the Coronavirus Becomes a War on 2 Fronts 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z That same day, they tested my blood oxygen saturation levels and I scraped by. 'I touched death': A coronavirus survivor's story 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Instead, Ammar and Nahed decided to close just on Mondays and Tuesdays and are trying to scrape by until the crisis ends. Syrian diner trying to stay afloat amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z He described his own bank account as “pretty low,” although he’s managing to scrape by. ‘Almost everybody I know is out of work’: How the coronavirus has unleashed economic havoc in Michigan 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z For a journalism industry already barely scraping by, the impact was almost immediate. US newspapers face 'extinction-level' crisis as Covid-19 hits hard 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, Dr. Chen said the hospital was “barely scraping by,” with staff members forced to reuse masks for an entire shift in order to conserve them, as are their colleagues at M.L.K. How 2 Very Different Los Angeles Hospitals Are Facing Coronavirus 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z “If it’s a couple weeks, fine, we can scrape by and handle this,” he said Sunday afternoon. As MLB scrambles to adjust to coronavirus, minor league players face fear and uncertainty 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But assurances from Maduro provide little relief to the many vulnerable Venezuelans just trying to scrape by. Economic fallout from virus felt in gas lines in Venezuela 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “I knew this was coming for a while, but I thought we might kind of scrape by. And then we didn’t.” Rites of passage and years of planning are among coronavirus victims 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z “We’re all scraping by, one disaster away from real catastrophe, and we need someone who understands that.” The People Who See Bernie Sanders as Their Only Hope 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “You were basically working to live, just scraping by,” said Mr. Lamas. Coming Home to a Michigan County Where Life Has Shifted 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z His optimism is shared, at least publicly, by the small handful of news organizations that are scraping by on local subscriptions. Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Juana López said she scraped by thanks to the charity of a local priest and working the occasional shift in the kitchen of a local school – when the government provided food that could be cooked. A million children left behind as Venezuela crisis tears families apart 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z She scraped by with just 9 percent of the vote in a state where she once was favored to finish second, or even first. Analysis | The Democratic nomination contest doesn’t look like any from the past 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z However, the designer still remembers his tough early years when he was just scraping by, hoping to sell a jacket to make rent. How Daniel Patrick turned his love of sports, hip-hop and 1990s nostalgia into a brand 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z While he waits on a renewal, he scrapes by as a street vendor. US finds ally in Mexico as asylum policy marks first year 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z For those who are scraping by, however, it’s condescending and insulting. I love astrology. But the current craze has it all wrong | Jessa Crispin 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The judge said that not only could it not sue, but also that it’s not even allowed to try to block scraping by any technical means. Quick, cheap to make and loved by police – facial recognition apps are on the rise | John Naughton 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z She scraped by and managed to graduate, and she now works with Yazdanyar helping people dealing with sanctions. Cut off from family, unable to travel: how US sanctions punish Iranian Americans 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As a result, it's possible to be both very popular and barely scraping by. How a punk collective beat the streaming giants 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Louisville: The Cardinals’ recent pattern in league play of scraping by at home following lopsided road wins ended with a double-digit victory. No. 7 Louisville women pull away from Wake Forest, 75-61 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Louisville: The Cardinals’ recent pattern in league play of scraping by at home following lopsided road wins ended with a double-digit victory. No. 7 Louisville women pull away from Wake Forest, 75-61 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z “Sometimes you have to let big things fail so that everyone can identify a problem … maybe that’s what needs to happen rather than continuing to scrape by.” ‘I Honestly Don’t Trust Many People at Boeing’: A Broken Culture Exposed 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The debate is calling attention to how many workers are still scraping by with subminimum wages. The Minimum Wage Is Rising, but These Workers Are Being Left Behind 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Sweet and Lee are scraping by with assistance. Homeless find fresh start with helping hand 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z For 18 months, they scraped by on the modest salary her mother, who'd been an architect in Cuba, made in the footwear concession of a department store. How Camila Cabello reinvented herself 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Sanchez took care of their phone bills and other expenses, and tried to help with rent whenever possible, yet they barely scraped by for several months. After Her Mother’s Fall in the Subway, a Daughter Carried the Load 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Now he scrapes by in the city, full of regrets and accused by his former Mujahideen comrades of spying for their sworn enemy, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Iranian opposition fighters who can't think about sex 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z There are millions and millions of people living in these circumstances where you’re barely scraping by the smallest thing. 'Shameless' boss John Wells explains why peak TV must end 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z “Nail bars,” as they are known in Britain, are go-to employment spots for Asian migrants but often pay barely enough to scrape by. Vietnamese turn to traffickers to help chase fortunes 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Blanco scraped by without her diploma, working long hours in dentists’ offices for close to 20 years while raising two daughters. Bulletin Board 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Pat worries most about people barely scraping by. These voters illustrate how the divide between old and new Seattle is more complicated than it seems 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In Maracaibo, the petroleum capital, furloughed and destitute workers scrape by in a region literally awash in crude, since the state oil company doesn’t have money or employees to plug leaks. Perspective | These two places symbolized Venezuela’s strength. Now they epitomize its implosion 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Friends with good jobs, doctors and managers, now scrape by, he said. ‘One Country, Two Nationalisms’: The Identity Crisis Behind Hong Kong’s Turmoil 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He was scraping by when an offer of commercial work came in from an unlikely source. Robert Frank appreciation: Why his greatness went beyond 'The Americans' 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Today, he scrapes by as a worker in a pharmaceutical factory, living in a sparse, two-bedroom apartment in a working-class neighborhood in east Amman. Trapped in Jordan, Syrian refugees see no way home 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Today, he scrapes by as a worker in a pharmaceutical factory, living in a sparse, two-bedroom apartment in a working-class neighborhood in east Amman. Trapped in Jordan, Syrian refugees see no way home 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z They live in subsidized housing and scrape by on his meager wages from delivering Chinese food. She fled North Korea for a better life. How her lonely, impoverished death became political 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z You might think that students would be better off scraping by with no loans at all. Taking Out a Student Loan Is Better Than Dropping Out 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z When Dorian finally dislodged and swerved north Tuesday, the storm skirted the U.S. coastline, its outer edges scraping by Florida, Georgia and most of the Carolinas. Hurricane Dorian rips through Outer Banks, causing tsunami-like surge as it heads out to sea 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Emet cleaned pools in a government complex in the Philippines, earning $50 a month, barely enough to scrape by with his family in their Manila shantytown. Review | For many immigrants, family separation happens long before the border 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Its four heroines are lifelong friends, usually broke, but scraping by on luck, scheming and a little bit of honest work. 'Florida Man' is so over. On TV, Florida women are having their day 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The only option for many is to remain where they are and scrape by furtively. Denied asylum, but not deported, migrants in Europe live in limbo 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z For now he is sharing a one-bedroom apartment with 13 Cameroonians in Tijuana and scraping by with odd jobs, like peeling tomatoes at open-air markets. Anxious immigrants wait to learn effect of new asylum policy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Eventually, the family went to California, constantly moving and trying to scrape by. The ‘Vietnamese American Starbucks’ unites four brothers whose drive stems from early poverty 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z They were barely scraping by when they arrived in Tacoma. Formerly homeless Tacoma teen becomes first in his family to head to college 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z She scrapes by, selling coffee to the men working the oil rigs in the titular town. Tessa Thompson and 'Little Woods' director Nia DaCosta are breaking down Hollywood barriers 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z She scrapes by selling coffee to the men who work the oil rigs in the town of Little Woods in North Dakota, dreaming of a job in Spokane. Review: In the arresting ‘Little Woods,’ Tessa Thompson and Lily James get scrappy 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But within eight days, and without any definitive discoveries, he cast his ballot in favor of Kavanaugh, who scraped by on 50-48 margin. Jeff Flake: 'I'm still comfortable' with my record on Brett Kavanaugh 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He scrapes by selling homemade cheese to fellow exiles after leaving his family back home and his businesses, a bakery and some billiard halls. Fate in limbo, many Nicaraguan exiles struggle in Costa Rica 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z So if the people profiled in these articles are barely scraping by, what are they spending their money on? That couple ‘scraping by’ on $500,000 a year is actually socking away a ton of money 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He’s married, with two children, teaching at the yeshiva in Brooklyn he attended, and barely scraping by. Review: Novelist explores the secular and religious divide 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The fact that some students have to scrape by while the wealthy parents listed in the indictment threw around money to get their children access disturbed the students at Kauffman. ‘What Does It Take?’: Admissions Scandal Is a Harsh Lesson in Racial Disparities 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “It’s a joke to say it was sabotage. It’s all a lie,” fumed García, who scrapes by on remittances sent home by her husband, who fled to Chile in search of work. 'A city of shadows': fear as Venezuela's crippling blackout enters day four 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z But now that the harvest is over, he's scraping by on a monthly $900 disability cheque - even though the one of the stated goals of the Proud Boys is to end all welfare. Meeting America's political extremes 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But also, despite the claim to be scraping by, this family saves quite a lot of money in addition to the $7,300 “left over” every year. That couple ‘scraping by’ on $500,000 a year is actually socking away a ton of money 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z From the start of the trial, the defense has peddled the narrative of Mr. Guzmán’s impoverished upbringing, how as a child he sold oranges in the streets just to scrape by. At El Chapo Trial, a Potential Star Witness: El Chapo 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z The prime minister scraped by, in a vote of 151 to 148, with the support of defecting lawmakers from the former coalition party — the right-wing Independent Greeks — and independent legislators. Alexis Tsipras Survives Confidence Vote in Greece’s Parliament 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I am just a journalist who barely scraped by in high school physics, and until that spring evening, had never looked through a telescope in my life. Behold, the solar system’s best planet 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “A lot of them are just scraping by.” Quad-City area residents open their homes to musicians 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z After attempting to scrape by on adjunct teaching and retail jobs, I finally returned to the world of temp agencies. From academic to assembly line worker: My life of precarity in Middle America 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Winter, kheimónas, is a time of storms and of scraping by till spring. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Years later, scraping by as a domestic, she heard a familiar sound on the air. Howell Begle, lawyer who championed penniless R&B stars, dies at 74 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Planned Parenthood’s policies, though, can make it hard for employees to scrape by after giving birth. Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Many of these villages were burned, then flattened and scraped by bulldozers. Special Report: Myanmar's moves could mean the Rohingya never go home 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In these essays, we see these efforts through their young son’s eyes: scraping by to pay the bills, monthly excursions back across the Rio Grande to economize on groceries and haircuts in Juárez. In Octavio Solis’ carefully crafted ‘Retablos,’ an expansive new vision of a troubled America 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The Bears needed Bradley’s late lift to scrape by against a team it dominated the entire first half. Bradley’s late scoring lifts Cal past Santa Clara 78-66 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z While most foreign tutors were scraping by on next to nothing, he decided to try private tutoring by putting flyers offering his teaching services in mailboxes. How one family built Qualtrics, an $8 billion startup far from Silicon Valley 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Yet as “Becoming Astrid” wends its way, it’s also sometimes a sly biopic dare — not just, can you see the looming legend in a single unwed mother scraping by? Review: 'Becoming Astrid' details the hardscrabble beginnings of Pippi Longstocking's creator 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z With her husband gone, she scrapes by on a meager pension and tries to manage her family’s grief. A Yemeni boy gets lost in a land prowled by US drones 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z With her husband gone, she scrapes by on a meager pension and tries to manage her family's grief. A Yemeni boy gets lost in a land prowled by US drones 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Many were apparently scraping by on what little money they brought from home or on handouts from strangers along the way, undercutting any suggestion of foreign funding for a mass migration. Migrant Caravan Driven by Hope but Uncertain of Success 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Just as in Aesop’s tale, the city rats benefited from the largess of human waste, whereas country rats scraped by. City Rats Eat Meat. Country Rats Eat What They Can. 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Little else is sweet in Huron, where jobs not displaced by automation in farming are mostly done by hand, and residents struggle to scrape by. Far from fame, poverty blossoms in ‘forgotten California’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z One question is how well Sears and Kmart will manage to scrape by in the forthcoming holiday season. Sears faces tough foe: an unforgiving bankruptcy code 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Hector and I scraped by, but it took nearly depleting our life savings to pay our bills and daily expenses for almost a year. Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery is built on thousands of people just doing their jobs 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But Sheri herself is also just scraping by, raising two daughters on a fixed disability check. Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z For the next two years, he was mostly unemployed, and even when he eventually found work, he was barely scraping by. The Great Recession Knocked Them Down. Only Some Got Up Again. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Some scrape by living in moldy half-built homes, others have fled to motels, others still rely on donations or relatives to house them. A year later, the ‘Harvey Homeless’ endure lingering effects of record Texas floods 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z But even as Lorain and many other Ohio cities are barely scraping by, the state government is flush with money. Some States Sitting on Piles of Cash, and Cities Want a Cut 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z For months, she scraped by on meager wages, babysitting and waiting on tables. For domestic abuse and gang violence survivors, Sessions has narrowed the path to asylum 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Its coffers are not overflowing, however, and a majority of citizens and neighborhoods barely scrape by. LeBron or Not, the Cleveland Cavaliers Get Millions for Arena Renovation 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Barely scraping by, they don’t regard pulling up stakes and moving on as a viable option. Editorials from around Oregon 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The session offered a mirror on a party deeply split and a government just scraping by to stay in office. Lawmakers confront May in rowdy House of Commons session 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He suffered through 100 failed auditions and scraped by delivering pizza for Domino's. 'My wife can never call my name in public' 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It was there that Zaid Imad Khalaf, 24, made a living selling chickens, scraping by next to a grocer who sold onions by the kilogram and a trader who sold flour by the scoop. The Case of the Purloined Poultry: How ISIS Prosecuted Petty Crime 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Appropriate to the target demographic, "Liza on Demand" is a gig-economy comedy, in which Koshy's character, also called Liza, is scraping by with odd jobs. "Liza On Demand" review: A tough job, but some YouTube star has to do it 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Some small fishermen who previously were scraping by digging clams and worms suddenly earned enough cash in the span of an 11-week eel season to pay off their houses and buy new trucks. 19 Eel Smugglers Sentenced, But Lucrative Trade Persists 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Damaged buildings are hollowed-out, a testament to past lives and aspirations of inhabitants who now scrape by on aid handouts and the bare minimum for survival. Civil war leaves Yemen’s port city of Aden a bombed-out husk 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The members deserve it, said union leader Max Arias; most are minority women who barely scrape by. Why L.A. Unified may face financial crisis even with a giant surplus this year 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Alberto, the first named Atlantic storm of the 2018 season, scraped by Cuba’s west coast before charging into the southern United States, but still brought heavy rain. Cuba raises death toll from Storm Alberto to seven, two missing 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z On one level, they are a traditional nuclear family, albeit a nuclear family which scrapes by with minor cons and pilferings. “Shoplifters”, a touching tale of outsiders, wins at Cannes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “These defendants were building some of the most expensive real estate in the world and the victims were low-wage workers, just scraping by,” he said. Laborers on a ‘Billionaires’ Row’ Tower Cheated of Wages, D.A. Says 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Shtewi scrapes by with occasional work as a porter or day laborer. With little to lose, Gaza’s men drawn to border protests 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s about bantering, sarcastic characters that often do the dumbest things possible, but manage to scrape by because ultimately, their hearts are in the right place. Solo: A Star Wars Story — our spoiler-free review 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Fifty years after King was assassinated, nearly 41 million Americans live below the official poverty line, but many more barely scrape by on low wages. Echoing MLK in 1968, activists kick off new Poor People's Campaign 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Gina Palomino, her husband and their three children scrape by on his income from occasional building work and her street-corner sales of fruit, interrupted now that she is pregnant. A warning on poverty from Peru 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Now that buyers returned, he earns enough again to scrape by. Special Report: A fractured peace – violent rivals rush into FARC... 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “I can scrape by. I can make due on my salary if I just want to pay bills. That’s it,” Phillips said. ‘I just have to do it.’ Teachers struggle with second jobs 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z In the – in the wake of the news about data scraping by Cambridge Analytica and – and Facebook, you had this to say recently and I thought it was quite interesting. Read Tim Cook's interview with Chris Hayes and Kara Swisher 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The inhabitants of this story are barely scraping by and often struggling to put food on the table. 'Lean on Pete' director Andrew Haigh explores life of the Portland underclass 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Facebook prevented the article from being scraped by the company’s link tools, and also stopped the URL from being shared. Facebook blocked a newspaper article about police brutality 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As the work stoppage stretched, educators shared stories of scraping by in this state, where average teacher salaries ranked 48th in 2016, according to National Education Association data. ‘We will move forward’: With deal on pay in place, West Virginia’s teachers eye return to the classroom 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Others associated with the tourism business are just scraping by. Puerto Rico’s Positive Business Slogans Can’t Keep the Lights On 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z One out of every five senior citizens is trying to scrape by on an average income of just $8,300 a year. Millennials Are Saving for the Future, if They Can Afford To 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z They scrape by on his wages from construction and landscaping jobs, relying on federal food stamps to help feed their children and Medicaid for doctor’s visits. ‘We would literally not survive’: How Trump’s plans for the social safety net would affect America’s poorest 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z In 2018 US where Citizens barely scrape by, allocate resources to Citizens. With DACA in Limbo, Teachers Protected by the Program Gird for the Worst 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z On the outskirts of the city, characters played by the Amatos scrape by in an underground economy built on suitcase theft and ransoms for stolen cars. Neorealist 'A Ciambra' captures a boy's life in a changing Italy Wrinkles are common in the lives of people scraping by. The nation’s first Medicaid work rules loom, and many fear losing health coverage 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z They scraped by for nearly 25 years, but as Nick’s health began to deteriorate, so did the family finances. Nicholas Homblette, Federal Way man with cerebral palsy, survived on the love of others 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Yet he yearned for paychecks that would allow him to save a little, instead of just scraping by. She begged him not to leave Mexico again. But the lure of America was powerful, and deadly 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Today, it scrapes by on a skeleton staff, and is expected to shut for good in December. Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z No. 1 Wise scraped by Eleanor Roosevelt 21-14 on Friday, after Raiders quarterback Jaden’s Faulkner’s final pass floated out of the back of the end zone as time expired. Football Top 20: The top of the rankings stay the same, while C.H. Flowers, Freedom rise 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z And by scrape by, I really mean scrape by. Report: Family of 4 needs $76,000 just to ‘scrape by’ in Seattle 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Today’s runaways are finding themselves adrift in much costlier cities, where even fully employed and well-educated people are finding it increasingly difficult to scrape by. 'One false move and you're done': how US cities are changing for runaway kids 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z As if Washington were not amply stocked with people as busy as the self-important Mr. Price, most of whom somehow scrape by on commercial transportation. Opinion | Tom Price sure knows a lot about waste, fraud and abuse 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Bodega is launching at a time when local bodegas are barely scraping by, said Chakrabarti. Fury at 'Bodega' tech startup that aims to put mom-and-pop shops out of business 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Over the last decade and a half, I’ve scraped by with mediocre home office furniture to the detriment of my body and possibly my soul. Wirecutter Editor Shares the Tech That Can Improve Your Life 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Just to scrape by in Seattle, a family of four would need to earn $76,000 in a year — an 86 percent jump since 2001 — according to a new report from the University of Washington. Report: Family of 4 needs $76,000 just to ‘scrape by’ in Seattle 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s a painful reality of today’s economy. Jobs are plentiful, but jobs with good wages aren’t, leaving many working long hours or multiple jobs but still barely scraping by. Half the jobs in America pay less than $18 an hour. Can Trump help? 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Public-land managers are mostly scraping by, relying on volunteers and attempting to limit the spread of the most damaging invasives, especially those that prevent the recovery of endangered species. Conservation: The great US land grab : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Rent and bills, including childcare, come to about $800 a month, and they are barely scraping by, living paycheck to paycheck. Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery' 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Although he barely scrapes by, Inigo says it’s still a great gig for a struggling actor who needs to keep an open schedule for auditions. AP PHOTOS: Struggling actors moonlight as superheroes in LA 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The family scrapes by on small cash stipends and food vouchers from U.N. aid agencies, along with the father’s below-minimum-wage income as a laborer. More Syrian child brides in Jordan amid poverty, uncertainty 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The best thing to do may be to find a friend’s or your own crappier phone and scrape by with that until the 8 finally rests safely in your hands. How to sell your used iPhone 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z For the rest of us, we’re just trying to scrape by. Readers speak out: “Seattle doesn’t know how to handle the boom” 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z This month, it was reportedly in talks to sell for almost $1.5 billion — hardly the mark of a business just scraping by. Opinion | The staggering price prisoners’ relatives must pay to call their loved ones 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Goossen said: “The bigger problem is that now all the energy of the state is focused on how we scrape by and make do when we ought to be focused on the future.” 'We are a cautionary tale': Kansas feels the pain of massive Trump-style tax cuts 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Her situation is not uncommon among Fort Collins seniors who spent decades scraping by on low-wage or low-skill jobs only to be plunged deeper into poverty in retirement. Retirement shortages hit Colorado minorities hardest 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Throughout all my school years I barely scraped by in math. From loathing to learning: Here are your stories about teachers who changed your minds 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The west of the city, which stayed in government hands, is still functioning but many are scraping by on remittances from abroad and salaries worth a fraction of their pre-war value. Amid the rubble, Aleppo tries to return to normal life 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z His club has only a few dozen members, scraping by selling fish sticks and fries, along with tickets for music acts. Inside a Colorado pot club – a rare and endangered species 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z For several years, Murray scraped by on low-paying jobs; then, in 1948, the women’s division of the Methodist Church approached her with a problem. The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z In Tara Thompson’s weekly calculations on how to scrape by on $20,000 a year, her daughters are always at the heart of the equation. Basing Life on What You Can Afford 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Many of his neighbors — housekeepers, factory workers, nurse’s aides — are in the same predicament, working hard at jobs available to black South Africans, but barely scraping by. South Africa, a Nation With Sharp Inequality, Considers a Minimum Wage 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The Eastern Shore resident said current generations are already scraping by on it. Ex-Navy SEAL from Virginia aims to make mark in Congress 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z And she’s hoping the capital campaign and membership push will move the Elks beyond merely scraping by. Elks Lodge, a fading Boulder institution, eyes comeback 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Once a rural outpost where residents scraped by harvesting bananas and sugar cane, the town was transformed almost overnight in 2006 when Vale opened its Brucutu mine. A Geographic Shift in Brazil Mining Leaves a Storied Region Hurting 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Just two years earlier, Johnston was scraping by on the Challenge Tour, hoping for a high finish to be able to afford Christmas gifts for his family. Golf's 18 Top Newsmakers of 2016 - Golf Digest 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z To scrape by, several families often rely on one salary-earner, and child marriage is increasing, with girls married off at the age of 15 on average, and often younger. Yemen edging nearer famine as war, 'shredded economy' take toll: U.N. official 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z She had been with Oesterlund since she was 25 and scraping by as a cruise ship’s photographer. How to Hide $400 Million 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z While the aviation industry rakes in $36bn in profits, workers like me scrape by. Yes, the US economy is rigged. That's why we're striking | Oliwia Pac 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “Vienna drives anyone crazy,” he once told an interviewer, describing how he scraped by on a meager scholarship, enduring loneliness while taking refuge in psychoanalysis. Opera Maestro Ensnared in Brazilian Graft Scandal Lashes Out at Accusers 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Wade and Goldman now have a lawyer and an accountant, employ other writers and are expanding so quickly that they’re surprised to think the majority of their adult lives were spent scraping by. For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Kerr stayed busy and earned an income by fixing up cars, but the couple and their two children had to scrape by for all those years. Veteran hopes to help others exposed to Agent Orange 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In most places, Chinese drivers scrape by each other fearlessly, with motorcycles, bikes and motorized rickshaws weaving through. ‘They Look Kind of Like Smurfs’: A Spin in Baidu’s Self-Driving Car 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Fast-food servers scrape by on minimum wage; contract workers are denied benefits; child-care providers have no paid leave to spend with their own children. Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The book recounts Smith’s early years in New York, living with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel, scraping by, making art and rubbing shoulders with rock stars, drag queens and Factory girls. 'It's not Bob and Patti: The Ballet': new show celebrates Mapplethorpe and Smith 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Or George W. Bush, who barely scraped by in the 2000 election after an early November revelation that he had once pleaded guilty to a DUI. How Donald Trump Turned 2016 Into a Referendum on Gender 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z And they have had to scrape by with relatively little. Can Cuban science go global? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Most slum dwellers scrape by on informal work in their neighbourhoods. Left behind 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z She also noted that he didn’t say anything about raising the pay of care providers, who often scrape by on minimum wage. Donald Trump's Child Care Plan Includes Stay-at-Home Moms 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Old families still tell tales of scraping by. City on the brink: Petersburg can’t pay its bills, and time is running out 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Half of the nation’s early childhood educators live in poverty, scraping by with the help of federal benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid. We Should Treat Early Childhood Educators as Valued Employees 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, players who received large signing bonuses watch teammates scrape by. Far from glamorous majors, minor leaguers pinch pennies 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Back when Dequan Jackson’s mother was unable to pay his court costs, the family was scraping by on meager slices of the father’s disability checks. Court Costs Entrap Nonwhite, Poor Juvenile Offenders 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He maxed out his credit card, borrowed against his Colorado house, and scraped by, enlisting graduate students in several countries to photocopy and send him papers, which he checked and double-checked with a watchmaker's precision. Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change, this 'carbon accountant' says 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z On the other hand, consider the amateur athletes who lack lavish sponsorships and lucrative endorsement deals, and who are just scraping by. A gold medal in worthless ideas: Tax breaks for Olympic winners 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z He never made much money, but scraped by selling electronic goods out of the trunk of his car. My Grandfather Smuggled Drugs to Help My Grandmother 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z By the time he was a teenager, Wakaz had joined the legions of other unskilled young Iraqi men who scraped by with day-labor construction jobs: hauling bricks, cutting rebar, mixing cement. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z As Burroughs tells it, after he graduated from the University of Nebraska, he was scraping by until he won gold at the world championships in 2011 and then struck gold in London. Wealthy Donors Dangle a Huge Payday in Front of U.S. Wrestlers 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z He shares his house with his son, who scrapes by as a painter, and four grandchildren. South African Vote Looms as Big Test for Ruling ANC 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The incident management team says there’s no formal containment of the fire but that crews plan burnout operations to strengthen a fire line based on existing roads and scraping by bulldozers. Humidity helps firefighters on North Rim of Grand Canyon 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Left unsaid is the corollary: without reform, Turkey will merely scrape by. Sugar highs 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z For New York immigrant families just scraping by, the $680 it costs to apply for United States citizenship may be too much of an obstacle. Lottery Will Cover Citizenship Application Fee for New York State Residents 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z And a new crop of interns are starting to scrape by in the city. New York Today: First Impressions of Our City 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z For one thing, rising costs make it hard for idiosyncratic people who want to scrape by — the literal and figurative hippies of the past. Vashon tries to keep it real despite an influx of people and money 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “We were just scraping by,” said Ms. Lathon, 56, who works full time as a technician for the Harris County Health Department. Food Banks Take on a Contributor to Diabetes: Themselves 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z For 25 years, she was a scientific nomad, working at nine institutions in five countries, scrambling for research funds, paid so little she barely scraped by. Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Still-Busy Life After Crispr 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Before the boom, many were barely scraping by. Against the grain 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Independent Lens Three different people who scrape by collecting recyclables on the streets of Oakland are profiled in the new documentary “Dogtown Redemption.” Monday's TV highlights: 'Jane the Virgin' and more 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Or she feels lucky I have gotten it, for Beatrice is scraping by, which means I had to co-sign the lease, a process that was only slightly less involved than adopting a baby. You wanna get to the top in New York City? You’d better have strong legs. 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Biersmith has been scraping by on some freelance work between the trips to Somalia, Kenya, Miami and St. Louis. Life in St. Louis is a new game for Somali soccer players 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z As the movie opens, hard-core Virginia-based band the Ain't Rights are scraping by on tour in the Pacific Northwest, not above siphoning gas from other cars to keep their van going. Filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier takes a punk-rock approach to thriller 'Green Room' 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He scraped by at Kent State University, working three jobs to pay his way and learning how to be a student. Buried underground gave him time to think about a second career in Americana 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “You work 40 hours a week and you’re barely scraping by,” said Britt. Trump supporters: What do they see in him? 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z So I learned about economics, not just in college, but in living in a family that didn’t have money that had to scrape by. Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Guides who once led visitors to see lions and elephants in Waza National Park in the north now scrape by with occasional work building new homes in the Minawao Refugee Camp. Boko Haram Falls Victim to a Food Crisis It Created 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z He had no fixed address at the time, but he managed to scrape by as a busker; having begun that way myself, I wondered if it provided him with any sort of lesson. Unlocking the Mystery of Benjamin Clementine 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z "You work 40 hours a week and you're barely scraping by." Republicans want to cut government spending? Not these Trump supporters 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z But I am not a furbetta, if I were I wouldn’t be in this situation,” scraping by supporting a family of five, she said. Italian Town, Scrutinizing School Meals, Faces Cries of Bean Counting 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Being a good friend takes time and effort, and occasionally generosity of spirit, all things that tend to be sorely lacking in people scraping by on three hours’ sleep a night. My New Year resolution: stop being a lousy friend | Gaby Hinsliff 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Humans will work for a pittance, if necessary, to scrape by. Wookienomics 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But it was a childhood of just scraping by, a childhood without a mother. A young drug dealer’s aunt said he wouldn’t live to be 13. 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Washington scraped by with a victory on Sunday and many players acknowledged the team needs to be better as it continues its playoff push. Kirk Cousins has best road performance despite interception 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “Things are kind of rough right now,” said the 32-year-old Summitt, who scrapes by on food stamps and other government assistance while she continues a four-year wait on a disability claim. Agencies try a new approach as poverty grows in Warrensburg 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Mining is at the heart of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where slag heaps tower over fields and houses, and workers scraped by even before the conflict. Kiev Remains an Economic Lifeline for Separatist-Held East 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Firstly, the scale of the problem is greater: the poorest people in Africa scrape by on less than a tenth what the poorest people in the United States live on. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s billions help tackle the world’s problems? | William MacAskill and Deborah Orr 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z In Dakar, where most residents scrape by on less than $3 a day, transportation is largely on foot. Senegal's legendary 'car rapides' reaching the end of the line 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Horton barely scraped by, she said, making it through a long period without much income only with the help of a “very small circle” of family and friends. After Years Out of a Job, Older Workers Find a Way Back In 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z How many of us stuff ourselves on Thanksgiving not fully appreciating that many people regularly go hungry, scraping by on a few dollars a day? Take a hard look at what it means to be poor in America, and ask how to help 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis While scraping by as a child, Brown was also busy learning to play organ, bass, guitar, saxophone, trumpet and drums. James Brown – 10 of the best 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Lutz still has the Park Rapids store, but said it’s just scraping by. Ben Franklin store in Bemidji going out of business 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z For many residents, mechanized removal of waste, which costs more than double the price of manual emptying, is too expensive in a country where most people scrape by on less than $3 a day. Senegal turns to sewage in bid to meet renewable goals 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z It's likely to focus in part on those like Jones who are still scraping by. 'Working harder for less money' in Las Vegas, weary host of the Democratic debate 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In the meantime, Mr. Lessig said he and his family had been scraping by since kicking off his campaign last month. Hoping to Be Invited to the Debate, Lawrence Lessig Waits by the Phone 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z At 64, he was barely scraping by in the upstate New York village of Mohawk. Mass Murderers Fit Profile, as Do Many Others Who Don’t Kill 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z With state aid stalled, schools, counties and nonprofit social services organizations are trying to scrape by. Wolf: GOP leaders blocking a sound budget agreement 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Obama told delegates that 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and that billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases. The Latest: xxxx 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z School districts, counties and nonprofit social services organizations are taking increasingly desperate measures to scrape by, as billions of dollars are held up in Harrisburg. Increasingly desperate measures taken amid budget stalemate 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z With the state’s spending authority curtailed, Pennsylvania’s school districts, counties and nonprofit social services organizations are trying to scrape by. Pennsylvania Senate passes short-term spending plan 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z With the state’s spending authority curtailed, school districts, counties and nonprofit social services providers are searching for ways to scrape by without state aid. The Latest: Senate returns to pursue stopgap budget bill 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z That has sent school districts, counties and nonprofit organizations in search of ways to scrape by. ‘Quiet crisis’ as Pennsylvania’s budget stalemate grinds on 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In rural Texas through the 1960s, most farms were family-owned, and those families were scraping by. Rural Foard County is a part of Texas the boom bypassed 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z But 60 percent of the population still works in the informal sector as taxi drivers or street vendors, most of them barely scraping by. Mexicans Remain Pessimistic on Economy, Despite Signs of Progress 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Residents near the chimpanzee colony say they appreciate the difficulties the animals are going through, but they themselves are scraping by as small-scale fishermen. Liberians look for help to care for research chimps 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the team pushed through, scraping by on loans from other clubs and the league to finish the season. Soccer Phoenix Tries to Rise From the Ashes of a Once-Proud Italian Program 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “It is just a dismal situation for everybody involved in harness racing. Everybody involved is just scraping by,” he said. County, state fairs cut back harness racing in Illinois 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “It takes three months for sweet potatoes to grow, nine months for taro roots and leaves, a year for bananas ... In the meantime, we’ll scrape by,” David says with a shrug. Vanuatu reconstruction moves ahead in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z He scrapes by on the 50 shillings he earns for each car he washes. Calling Obama ‘Our Son,’ Kenyans Nod Knowingly at His Critique 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z All this is more intriguing because the Department of Health only just scraped by despite an injection of £890m in extra funding over the course of the financial year. The health budget – under strain again - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z His unemployment benefits stopped after a year, and now he scrapes by on a day or two of freelance work a month if he is lucky. 'Our children will grow up in a destroyed country' – Greeks fear for the future 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z It was a legitimate question that accurately reflects the underlying perception held by most people in any demographic–that budgeting is for those just scraping by and young people just getting started. Budgeting Guide for the Rich 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “Others of them are scraping by,” she said. New York City Is Sued Over Rule Change to Rent-Freeze Program 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z If only we weren’t always scraping by and worrying about money. Why we’re riveted when bad things happen to rich people 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. McConnell threw his energy into creating one of the country’s earliest gay community centers, and the couple scraped by on $75 a month from the G. I. Bill. The Same-Sex Couple Who Got a Marriage License in 1971 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z While the bill passed 23-11 in the Senate on Tuesday, it barely scraped by in the House, where members voted 84-73 in favor of it. Governor weighs plan to fix Missouri’s student transfer law 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “During my college summers I received no scholarship money and had to scrape by,” she said. Team USA Launches Crowdfunding Website, Reveals Costs To Be An Olympian 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z “Just because I work in fast food does that mean I should have to just scrape by in life?” he asked. Minimum wage workers take to streets to 'Fight for $15' 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Miliyon works illegally seven days a week while living in a local flophouse with other immigrants trying to scrape by, some illegal and some legal. Stateless: The Ultimate Legal Limbo 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z With no working papers, she is inching through community college, scraping by with a part-time job at the front desk in a television repair shop. States Are Divided by the Lines They Draw on Immigration 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z In the case of adjuncts, they were scraping by on only a few thousand dollars per course. America's Happiest Industries 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Rest assured, my household is more than scraping by. Stay-at-Home Parent Is Not a 'Luxury' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z This is his niece and nephew’s home, and he’s scraping by with what little money he has from selling art. Artist aims to create mural by people in every US state 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z He scraped by for years in low-paying jobs, including working as a carpenter and freelance researcher. A Bernie Sanders presidential bid would take on the billionaires 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z While much of its 90-million population strives toward middle-class success — with many barely scraping by — Vietnam's wealthiest citizens are increasingly flaunting their success, or excess, in an economy colored with corruption. With Vietnam's economic advance comes stark income inequality 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z So these urban refugees scrape by in limbo, freer than those in camp settings but in some ways more vulnerable. Stuck in limbo, Bangkok’s hidden urban refugees scrape by 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But that suggests Ukraine will be left to scrape by until then, and possibly longer. Putin threatens to cut gas to Ukraine as showdowns shift to economy 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z She now works as a security guard for $9 an hour, and barely scrapes by. Student Debt Strike Hits For-Profit College 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Since then, operators have scraped by through partnerships with small and medium-sized U.S. banks that still allow funds to be sent to Somalia. Remittance Cutoffs Threaten Somalis 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z With the country’s oil-based economy crumbling, the number of poor is growing, as is the gap between those barely scraping by and the wealthy who hire guards to protect themselves from thieves and kidnappers. Dangerous Work, Low Pay for Venezuela Bodyguards 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z |
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